This is Standard Republican Policy. Is This What You Want?
Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
MAGA is Ruining Maine
Eight Republicans Are Campaigning on a $50 Billion Rural Health Fund. It Comes From the Same Law That Cuts $137 Billion From Rural Medicaid.
Roger Marshall, Jon Husted, Susan Collins, Juan Ciscomani, Jeff Crank, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Jason Smith and Derrick Van Orden are touting rural health grants in the final weeks of the campaign. KFF says the fund covers barely a third of what the same law takes out of rural Medicaid, and it runs out.
Before She Was a Senator, Susan Collins Led the Fight to Cut Benefits for Injured Maine Workers. It Took Maine Nearly 30 Years to Undo.
As the governor's point person in the late 1980s and early '90s, Collins pushed cuts to benefits for workers hurt on the job, asked business to lobby for them, and stood by as the fight shut down Maine's government.
Susan Collins Now Says There Was 'No Way' to Know Kavanaugh Would Overturn Roe. She Named That Exact Risk in Her 2018 Speech Voting for Him.
Two weeks before Election Day, Collins told a Maine TV station she had no way to anticipate Kavanaugh's vote to overturn Roe. Her own 2018 floor speech named the concern, and Trump had promised justices who would do it.
Susan Collins Attacks Troy Jackson for Calling Two Houses His Home. In 2004 She Pledged Two Different Houses as Her Principal Residence at Once.
Collins and a super PAC backing her have spent weeks hitting Jackson over a mortgage that listed his Augusta house as his primary home. Mortgage records show Collins spent about eight months in 2004 bound by principal-residence pledges on houses in Washington and Bangor.
Lockheed Martin Became Susan Collins's Biggest Donor in Two Months. Then She Voted to Buy 83 More of Its Late, Over-Budget F-35s.
In May and June 2023, Lockheed Martin employees and executives gave Susan Collins $59,500 — a quarter of all contributions to her main campaign fund in those two months. In July she voted to fund 83 new F-35s, weeks after federal auditors flagged the program's costs.
A Russian-Born Ballroom Donor Got a Fast Pass Around Russia Sanctions and a $201 Million Federal Fund. His Money Also Went to Ten Republicans on This Site.
Konstantin Sokolov gave to Trump's White House ballroom days before his company asked Treasury for a license to get around Russia sanctions. He got it in 10 weeks, used it to buy a copper mine from a sanctioned Russian bank, and was put in charge of $201 million in State Department money. FEC records show he also gave to committees raising money for Susan Collins, Pete Ricketts, Dan Sullivan, Vivek Ramaswamy and six more Republicans on this site.
Palantir's CEO Gave $100,000 to Susan Collins's Super PAC. Then She Voted for $70 Billion in Immigration Enforcement Money With No Strings Attached.
FEC records show executives at Palantir — which ICE is paying to build its deportation-tracking system — have put $117,250 into Susan Collins's campaign, her leadership PAC and the super PAC re-electing her, including $100,000 from CEO Alex Karp. Executives at the private prison giants CoreCivic and GEO Group gave too. Collins voted for nearly $70 billion for ICE and the Border Patrol and against body cameras.
A Convicted Donor Emailed Two Collins Allies About His Illegal $150,000 Scheme. Her Campaign Has Since Paid One of Their Firms $320,000.
In 2019, Martin Kao emailed two Collins allies about the fake nonprofit he was using to sneak $150,000 to her super PAC. One, Scott Reed, now runs her new super PAC. The other, MacKenzie Dolan, co-founded a firm Collins's campaign has paid more than $320,000 since 2025, FEC records show.